collected by Lt.-Col. Nurse, chiefly in N.W. India. 307 
Prothorax with hind-margin regularly rounded, bronzed black, 
paler at sides which are slightly pruinose. 
Thorax bronzed black above, sometimes with narrow shoulder 
stripes. Legs reddish with black streaks on tibie of two anterior 
pairs. 
Abdomen short and rather stout; segments 1-4 above carmine 
(“dark reddish-purple,” Nurse), 2 darkly marked at the base, 3, 4 with 
slight transverse dark streaks before the apex which is also narrowly 
dark ; 5 lemon-yellow with similar dark markings ; 6 yellowish or 
reddish in anterior half; remainder of abdomen metallic violet, the 
posterior part of the last segment and the appendages reddish. 
Apex of last segment only very slightly raised, but seen from above 
there is a very distinct and wide excision bounded on either side by 
a small projecting process. 
Superior appendages seen from above, shorter than inferior, broad, 
obliquely truncate, posteriorly abruptly turned downwards and 
terminating in an acute point. Inferior appendages seen from the 
side, broad at the base, narrowing to the apex, upper margin nearly 
straight, inferior margin sinuous ; seen from beneath they are rather 
widely separated at the base, but there are pale inner processes 
which nearly meet ; viewed from above they are concave, curved 
inwards in their upper part which is armed with a small black 
dentate plate, 
Wings hyaline; neuration reddish. Pterostigma in fore-wings 
diamond-shaped, bright carmine inwardly, paler externally ; ptero- 
stigma in hind-wings small, yellow. 
Length of hind-wing, 12 mm. ; of abdomen, 16} mm. 
Deesa, October, November and January. 
This is not a true Jschnura, although referred provision- 
ally to the genus in the absence of the ?. It differs in the 
relatively short and stout abdomen, and in the absence of 
postoculars. 
There are 3 9? from Kashmir, 5000-6000 ft., May, which 
may belong to Ischnura rufostigma, Selys. They recall 
Pyrrhosoma tenellum, but the thorax is paler. In the 
meantime, in the absence of the ~¢, the determination is 
uncertain. 
Enallagma cyathigerwm, Charp.—Kashmir, 5000-6000 ft., 
May. 
Enallagma? parvum, Selys.—Deesa, June and October. 
Pseudagrion decorum, Ramb.—Deesa, June, July, August, 
October and November. 
P. hypermelas, Selys.—Deesa, January and February. 
